Her commitment to girls’ education in Afghanistan cost her exile. But Pashtana Durrani, honored Friday at the Geneva headquarters of the UN duringa summit with other young activists, says he has no choice but to keep trying to change his country. “I will always be Afghan. One day I will go back. Or my children, because that’s where their roots will be, ”she answers as evidence, her gaze affirmed. Her veil does not hide her hair from a distance. “It’s a rather cultural habit,” she says, as if defiantly. In Afghanistan, women are covered from head to toe.
